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S'rATEs PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM S. LACKEY, OF HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CLARENCE A. KROUSE, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-PML.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,505, dated May 9, 1899. Application led January 11, 1899. Serial No. 701,878. (No model.)

To all whom if may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S.LAOKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Iaddonfield, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Fails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to reepails of that class which are adapted to contain an extinguishing fiuid and are intended to be used as an ordinary pail in throwing the fluid upon the fire. It is important that the pail should be closed to the outside air, so as to prevent evaporation of its contents, and, further, thatits closure should be waterproof, and in car rying out my invention I have aimed to produce a pailwith n a simple form of closure adapted to attain both of the objects stated.

My invention includes, in a pail of substantially ordinary form, a top of tin-foil cemented about its edge by a nondrying adhesive material supported about the upper edge of the pail within its circumference, a particular means of supporting this cement filling, and, finally, itincludes a protectingcover, the tin-foil held in place upon the pail by means of a spring-flange allowing this cover to be easily and quickly displaced when occaslon requires.

In the accompanying drawing, the figure is a sectional view of a pail madein accordance with my present invention. l

In the figure, A represents the pail, which may be of any ordinary construction and of a proper size. Its walls are preferably flaring and especially at its upper part, and into this 'makin g a tight connection.

flaring part a ring B fits, having straight walls and forming a V-shaped space between the outer wall of the ring and the inner face of the upper edge of the pail, and into this space I place an adhesive cement, which may be of any suitable composition, 4preferably of the non-drying character.

In order to seal the contents of the pail and make it both air and water tight, I provide a cover of tin-foil D, the edges of this tin-foil being pressed into close sealing contact with the cement, and thus not only securing it but The pail has preferablya beaded or turned-over edge E. In order to protect the tin-foil from abrasion and `vention is of sheet-iron galvanized.

rupture, I provide a supplemental protecting-cover F, having a Iian ge of slightlycurved form and adapted to spring over the beaded edge of the pail and to be held in place without other fastening means than its own resiliency. This cover is provided with a loop G near one edge, thus enabling it to be readily pulled off. Y

The pail made in accordance with this in- All pails made in this way are drawn out of shape more or less at the top by the action of the hot metal used in galvanizing, and after being reshaped perfectly true will not retain that shape, the slightest pressure or even the -weight of the pail filled with water when it is hung up by the handle being sufficient to draw the top of pail out of true, thus making it impossible to use a snap-lid on the pail without some device for shaping the pail and keeping the top true, as the lid would not hold itselfin place unless the top remain a true circle. This is accomplished by the use of the removable cast-iron ring. The remove able cast-iron ring not only serves to form the recess on the inside of the pail, but re= shapes the pail if it is not true when forced into its place, the soft or plastic packing keeping it in place, and the ring being made of cast-ironstrengthens and stiifens the pail at its mouth, so that it is always true, even when thrown on the floor, which often happens in the use of tire-pails.

may be used in a new pail and is just as available and answers the same purpose as when first used.

What I claim isl. In combinationwith a sheet-iron pail, a reinforce for the top thereof comprising a re- Again, when ythe pail itselfis worn out the removable ring movable ring with a space between the :ring

and the wall of the pail-.bodyau adhesive. filling in said space and a tin-foil cover held by its edges to the filling, substantially as described.

2. In combination, with a pail, a wedgeshaped ring fitted to the interior thereof at its upper part and forming a space between said ring and the wall of the pail, an adhesive filling within said space and a cover held by its edges to said filling, substantially as described.

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3. In combination with a pail, a removable In testimony whereof I aliix my signature ring having a tapering lower edge fitted to in presence of two Witnesses. the interior of the pail with a. recess in the upper part of its outer Wall adapted to re- 5 ceive an adhesive filling, a cover held by its Witnesses:

edges to said illing and an outer protectingv JAMES P. HOPKINS,

cover, substantially as described. Ai F. RUTHERFORD.

WILLIAM S. LACKEY. 

